“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.”

— Franklin Pierce

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About Franklin Pierce

Politician • American

Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a threat to national unity, he signed the controversial Kansas-Nebraska...

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